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Twitter Suspends GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Twitter on Sunday temporarily suspended the account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican U.S. Congresswoman from Georgia who has expressed racist views and support for QAnon conspiracy theories online.
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Twitter CEO Defends Trump Ban, Cites Threats to Physical Safety
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday defended the company’s decision last week to permanently ban President Donald Trump. “After a clear warning we’d take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter,” Dorsey said in a thread on Twitter, talking about the ban for the first time....
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Trump's Ban From Social Media Platforms Sparks Debate Over Free Speech
Several major social media platforms kicked President Trump off in the aftermath of the deadly Capitol riot, drawing criticism from Trump supporters and sparking a debate over free speech. NBC10’s Brandon Hudson has the details.
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Social Media Crackdown Continues After Siege of US Capitol
Social media platforms are continuing to crack down on fringe groups and conspiracy theories following last week’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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Parler Squeezed as Trump Seeks New Online Megaphone
Though stripped of his Twitter megaphone, President Donald Trump does have alternative options of much smaller reach
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A Farewell to @realDonaldTrump, Gone After 57,000 Tweets
The Twitter account @realDonaldTrump, which grew from the random musings of a reality TV star into the cudgel of a president, has died
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Twitter Bans Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell in QAnon Account Purge
Twitter on Friday removed the accounts of Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell and other high-profile supporters of President Donald Trump that promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory.
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A Day of Infamy on Capitol Hill: The Lineup
Congress putting the Capitol on lockdown and leading to the death of at least one person. Plus, President Trump has been silenced on social media. Get up to speed on The Lineup for Thursday, January 7, 2021.
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Facebook, Instagram and Twitter Silence President's Account
Facebook, Instagram and twitter have frozen President Trump’s account after he continued to spread misinformation on social media. Dr. Joan Donovan from the Center on Media, Politics and Public Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, explains in an interview with NBC10’s Jim Rosenfield.
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Twitter Locks President Trump's Account After ‘Repeated and Severe Violations'
Twitter locked the account of President Donald Trump after the removal of three Tweets that repeated “severe violations” of Twitter’s Civic Integrity policy.
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Biden's Pick to Head OMB Brings Experience, Twitter Enemies
Neera Tanden, currently president of the Democratic-aligned think tank Center for American Progress, has spent years fighting online against both Republican legislators and leftist critics of her longtime boss Hillary Clinton
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‘Late Night' Amber Says What: Racist Twitter Drama, Patti LaBelle
“Late Night” writer Amber Ruffin recaps what’s happening in pop culture news.
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Twitter Fleets — How to Use the Social Media Platform's New Feature
Tweets, meet Fleets. Twitter unveiled its own version on Tuesday of the ephemeral stories found on other platforms with Fleets, which are tweets that disappear after 24 hours and cannot receive likes, retweets or public replies. The only way another Twitter user can reply to a Fleet is privately via direct message. The feature makes it “easier than ever to...
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Twitter Launches New Feature: Disappearing Tweets Called Fleets
Twitter on Tuesday launched a new feature that enables users to tweet momentary thoughts they may not care to keep on their permanent timeline.
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Twitter, Facebook CEOs Vow Election Action; GOP Touts Curbs
As the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook gave assurances of vigorous action against election disinformation, Republicans at a Senate hearing pounded the social media companies over political bias, business practices and market dominance
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Trump Seems to Suggest Biden ‘Won' But Later Says He's Not Conceding
Trump has not formally conceded, and the delay is already keeping Biden from receiving high-level intelligence briefings and complicating pandemic planning.
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Election Fallout: Social Media Platforms Struggle With Content
Well after election day, social media companies are still struggling to police content on their platforms.
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‘I'm a Black Gay Guy,' Viral Tweet from Pa. GOP Candidate Leads to Social Media Mystery
A Pennsylvania Republican congressional candidate sparked a social media mystery as well as allegations that he was impersonating a Black man online following a viral tweet on Tuesday.
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Refusing to Concede, Trump Blocks Cooperation on Transition
The Trump administration is throwing the presidential transition into tumult.
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World Shocked to Learn Stuff We Already Knew About Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Our Lieutenant Governor is a giant, the lanternflies are everywhere, and we like to dance. Deal with it.